Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1925. First French edition of Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Korper (On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies) and 1st die Tragheit eines Korpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhangig? (Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on its Energy Content?). Both 1905 treatises are "beyond compare and without precedent, one of the..... More
Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1915. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF ALBERT EINSTEIN'S PAPER ON THEORETICAL ATOMISM (ALSO BOUND WITH A PAPER ON GENERAL RELATIVITY). Both papers are included in Weil's catalog, respectively numbers 70 and 71. In "Theoretische Atomistik," Einstein emphasizes the importance of Brownian motion, specifically the..... More
Leipzig: Barth, 1906. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of two important 1906 Einstein papers. Einstein wrote two papers on the photoelectric effect, his revolutionary 1905 paper and "Zur Theorie der Lichterzeugung und Lichtabsorption," his continuation of it. In them, Einstein employed Planck's theory that luminous energy can be absorbed..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1921. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of a short letter Einstein wrote to the editors of Die Naturwissenschaften. In it, he stated that he did not author the preface of a book recently published by Lucien Fabre entitled Einstein’s Theories: A New Face in the..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1921. 1st French. FRENCH TRANSLATIONS of this “popular” exposition of the theory of relativity, The Theory of Restricted and General Relativity. Also included is Einstein's Relativity and the Space Problem. CONDITION & DETAILS: 1954. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1954. Ex-libris from The Franklin Institute with no spine markings. Rebacked with..... More
Berlin: Julius Springer, 1918. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS OF EINSTEIN’S REVIEW OF WEYL’S SEMINAL WORK, RAUM-ZEIT-MATERIE [SPACE-TIME-MATTERS] -- WEYL’S STUDY OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, written after spending a year with Einstein as the latter was working out the details of his theory. Weyl’s work is still..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1918. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN’S DISCUSSION OF MACH’S PRINCIPLE, a theory Einstein names and one which was historically important to the inspiration that would lead to general relativity. Mach’s principle states that “local physical laws are determined by the large-scale structure of the universe”..... More
Paris: Flammarion, 1938. 1st Edition. The evolution of ideas in physics. From the first concepts to the theories of relativity and quanta. Translated from the English by Maurice Solovine. Paris, Flammarion, Library of scientific philosophy, 1938, in-12 paperback, illustrated first cover, 298 pp, with 73 figures in the text and..... More
Leipzig: Barth, 1907. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF EINSTEIN’S 1st STATEMENT OF THE FULL EQUIVALENCE OF MASS AND ENERGY AND THE EQUATION E = MC² (written as µ = E/V²). In ‘On the Inertia of Energy Required by the Relativity Principle’ (pp. 371-384), “Einstein discussed the relationship between inertial mass..... More
1948. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST MENTION OF ALBERT EINSTEIN IN A COMIC. The Superman comic is housed in a custom clamshell box lettered and bound in colors that mimic the front of the comic itself. “He may be best known for laying down the theories of the..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth. 1st Edition. FIVE PAPERS BY HEINRICH HERTZ, TOGETHER PROVING THAT LIGHT AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES ARE THE SAME. Completing Hertz’s demonstration of the validity of Maxwell’s theory, Hertz “demonstrates that electromagnetic waves propagate, reflect, interfere and polarize just like light waves” (History of Physics: The Wenner Collection)..... More
Lancaster: American Institute of Physics, 1932. 1st Edition. BOUND FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF THE LORENZ-EINSTEIN TRANSFORMATIONS DESIGNED TO DEMONSTRATE MOTION-INDUCED TIME DILATION. Kennedy and Thorndike “considered the mathematical treatment originally applied to the Michelson-Morley experiment to see if there was a way to.. discriminate between Lorentz..... More
New York: New York Times, 1936. 1st Edition. First edition of the March 7, 1936 issue of the New York Times, complete with “Certificate of Authentication” by the Historic Newspaper Archives. The certificate is #379913; it is signed and includes the seal of the archive. As the title implies, this..... More
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Leipzig: Barth, 1916. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, OFFPRINT IN ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPS OF THE FIRST SOLUTION OF EINSTEIN’S EQUATION FOR THE METRIC OF A CHARGED POINT MASS. Überreicht vom Verfasser’ (Presented by the Author) appears in print on the front wrap. Hans Jacob Reissner, a German aeronautical engineer with a...... More
Lancaster: American Physical Society, 1955. 1st Edition. One of the major issues in relation to Einstein’s relativity was raised in 1933 by Dayton Clarence Miller and his ‘ether drift experiment’. In one of the most interesting and problematic “reviews of special relativity, [Miller] questioned Michelson and Morley’s ‘null result’. According..... More
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES IN THE BINARY PULSAR – the gravitational waves Einstein predicted in his 1916 theory of general relativity. This is the first proof that “radiation leaves the system of a binary pulsar at exactly the speed of light and as gravitational waves”..... More
London: Richard and John Taylor, 1843. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF WHEATSTONE’S EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF OHM’S LAW, including a practical and simple formula by which to calculate resistance and current according to Ohm’s law. In 1843, English scientist Charles Wheatstone gave a Bakerian lecture publicizing his “..... More